Fidelity Investments

Great company and benefits, just the role or industry I want to be in

Satisfied Rater Early Career

The job itself was torturous, but that’s just customer service. There were many women in leadership positions, and networking groups for female employees—which I participated in. If I ever want to start a family, I’ll probably go back to Fidelity. They offer generous maternity (and paternity) leave and have excellent health insurance.

Satisfied Rater Early Career

High stress environment, and very ruthless with those in early career. Especially if you're pregnant.

Indifferent Rater Early Career

Great company, pay, PTO, maternity leave. Really nothing bad to say.

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

Many many things are great. We have made great strides. Feedback can be rough, bad behavior at the lower levels can be swept under the rug, but that come with corporate some times. But we want to cultivate more woman in the industry, but we are up years of a good ol boys club. There are lots of woman in higher leadership roles, managers and leaders on the ground are lacking female representation.

Satisfied Rater Early Career

Fidelity as a whole is a phenomenal company. On a local level, not so much. The men are rude and crass and have fought initiatives to move away from the bus club mentality. The current manager at the office I am in picks favorites, helps them progress and not others (regardless of intelligence and merit), is apparently known for hiring only attractive women (so shallow). The only thing trapping myself and some of my other amazing coworkers who aren’t men/or the chosen favorites is the flexibility and the fact that there don’t seem to be other amazing options in the Baltimore market.

Unsatisfied Rater Mid-Level

This was the best company to work for. There was a little rigidity with scheduling, but my boss worked with me if I needed to leave early. I loved working at Fidelity

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

I loved working there. I'm not sure how it compares to other companies. The environment in my group was very supportive and benefits are great. Salary is a little lower because of that. Other groups have different cultures so it depends on the role you're in.

Very Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

I like working for Fidelity. There is an enormous amount of opportunity for women despite the fact it is a male dominated industry. I feel like the compnay is very corporate though and that can be soul crushing at times. We’re very well taken care of though, so the monotony that is required to keep the Big Green Machine going is tolerated.

Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

There are 3 offices in the San Diego area, and the ratio of men to women is at terrible. Probably like a 4:1 or 5:1 ratio.
It’s terrible.

Indifferent Rater

In UX Design, if you're a mid- or senior-level contractor, they will never be able to convert you to full-time employee. (If you're brought in at a junior level, however, chances are good.) Direct managers are awesome to contractors and do the best they can to make them part of the team and protect them, but upper mgmt considers contractors to be expendable... Even though they're often the most senior researchers and designers. If you're a higher level contractor, expect great day-to-day working conditions but a serious lack of stability / job security.

Indifferent Rater Mid-Level

They have good junior level support in place for women, but few part time and telecommuting opportunities at a senior level for women, especially in client facing roles like the investor centers.

Unsatisfied Rater Senior-Level

Fidelity used to be the perfect place to work. This year they made a lot of changes that are negatively impacting their employees and their customers.

Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

I'm blown away by how valued and supported I feel at Fidelity Investments.

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

I love Fidelity. They have been putting a focus on hiring woman because they are aware of how male dominated the industry can be. But like some people have pointed out that does still show i the higher leadership roles, which are mostly men. Mid-level management has lots of woman though! And we are run by a female CEO from the Johnson Family. I will agree that we are paid less than the industry standard, but our benefits are bar none. And sure we can have totally flex schedules, but they are working on ways to make that work for us, while also making sure the customers are still being taken care of. And working from home for some roles just doesnt work, because of FINRA and SEC rules for how client and trade information is saved. We have some of the best, if not the best, benefits around, so for me the things we lack aren't the end of the world. They do tons to support families, from Maternity leave, to emergency drop in care. I'd say those with families have more opportunities to use the benefits than I currently do. But we have PTO we can use for what we need, be that sick days or vacation they made it one bucket so we could use it more flexibly. As well as tuition reimbursement, which is HUGE! I think it's fair to say nothing is perfect, but I think Fidelity is a great place to work.

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

Great place to start of a career but most client facing roles do not have a flexible work schedule. Your experience in those areas is dependent on the manager, not the company overall.

Indifferent Rater Early Career

Extremely strict guidelines for compliance.

Unsatisfied Rater Early Career

Loved my time at Fidelity. Extremely generous maternity and paternity policies, flexible PTO, onsite gyms, high 401k match and profit-sharing. There's no wonder they call Fidelity the "golden handcuffs." The only suggestion I'd have would be to offer onsite childcare, especially for urban regions.

Very Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

While there are a lot of women in leadership across the company, that's not really the case in Utah, at least at the manager level. It has gotten better over the past few years with more senior level women leaders. I feel this is mainly because not many women can make it through the early part of their career due to shift and role inflexibility.

Indifferent Rater Early Career

There is an intense "dude bro" culture at this site. Women don't want Robbie constantly asked if they want to do push ups or go to an intense work out session by their Vice President. It's disturbing.

Unsatisfied Rater Early Career

Depends on where you work and the individual managers or leaders. Even though most people in the Northeast telecommute a few days a week, that is generally frowned upon in the Midwest. Wanting to have a flexible schedule will limit opportunities.

Indifferent Rater Mid-Level

While we have a chairwoman, the many of the individual business units are still male dominated "boys clubs".

Unsatisfied Rater Mid-Level

Great company to learn alot and get your credentials. They have wonderful leave policies now for families, however in the sales roles, it would be almost impossible to compete or earn a decent standard of living if one actually took the full leave. Would love to see compensation approached in a different manner. Only 6 sick days per year, fine for an individual adult. Very tough with a young one in daycare.

Indifferent Rater Mid-Level

Assessing Fidelity as a company is difficult. The comments and ratings are specific the group in which I worked and are not necessarily representative of the entire corporation.

Indifferent Rater Senior-Level

Fidelity hires great people to work with and offers 401K matching, health dental and vision insurance that are par-none. They also offer student loan repayment assistance and many other corporate perks. The pay, however, is below average and the work can be very emotionally taxing. That said, I do know that many people who work outside of customer service really love their jobs, so it may just depend on what arm of the company you work for.

Indifferent Rater Early Career

Amazing place to work for women!

Very Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

Very progressive company with family values in mind. They are an amazing company to work for.

Very Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

Fidelity does a great job of keeping women at the top, but not so good at keeping us in sales and management positions. Mid- and upper-level nanagement is mostly men. I also often wonder if I am paid the same as men with the same roles, tenure and experience. I secretly believe they are still paid more.

Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

Fidelity investments is awesome. It's definitely the most female friendly work environment I've ever worked in. They have everything you need and even a few things you wouldn't think about but that are definitely helpful!

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

With 16 weeks paid maternity leave for women and 6 for men this company is supportive of growing families. There is also an adoption reimbursement available. The on desire not met is assistance with childcare costs, which in the area can be more than $35,000 a year for two children . There are also comfortable, well appointed and private lactation rooms available and managerial/hr support for using them for a full year.

Very Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

Fidelity has a lot of great benefits for women but it is still such a male dominated company that there's always more to be done.

Satisfied Rater Early Career

Women's management opportunities are limited to lower & middle management.

Unsatisfied Rater Early Career

They have implemented policies to attempt to be progressive, but upper level leadership does not embrace change, so the environment stays the same. The focus on "personal brand" is a veil for discrimination based on gender or racial biases and stereotypes.

Indifferent Rater Mid-Level

There's an excellent bonus program at higher levels, but don't count on getting an annual increase -- those are few and far between. So, if you are joining Fidelity, make sure you negotiate for the highest possible salary, because you could go 5-10 years without an increase in your base pay. Flex hours and work@home options are available based on for whom you worked, rather than a companywide policy. Some managers are still in the dark ages and think they need to "see" you in order for you to be productive. Overall, this is a good, secure, and ethical company, but like most places there are strong politics across multiple levels, and you need to be culturally aware of who is "in, and who is on the way out. One turn off was working for someone who openly promoted her Republican viewpoint and her candidate of choice. I don't think this practice was widespread, but it was a factor in my decision to move on.

Indifferent Rater Senior-Level

Overall, Fidelity really cares about their employees. They provide AWESOME benefits and the pay is very competitive. However, I do wish they had a better representation of women in management as well as people of color. It's difficult for me to see a future here longterm because it doesn't seem like they fill management roles with people who look like me, an Asian Woman. But, I still love it here. Everyone has a mutual understanding that life comes before work and they're very flexible in terms of scheduling. They've got work to do, but they're certainly heading in the right direction!

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

Worked here for eight years. Used to be a great place to work for but they no longer care about their employees. Treat people poorly and pay is not inline with the market. No women in top positions and definitely no minority's.

Unsatisfied Rater Mid-Level

Fidelity is a great company for quick promotions if you have potential. They train and educate you, support you, have great benefits. The management is the part that is unfortunately sometimes a hit or miss. When you don't connect well with a manager and they don't understand your needs/motivations it is very challenging to switch positions. Also there seems to be a disconnect between workplace and personal investments.

Satisfied Rater Early Career

Fidelity is an amazing place to work. I work in the call center and couldn't be happier with the benefits and environment. Great pay, lots of advancement opportunities, retirement benefits, PTO, VTO, insurance...the list goes on. A big one is that maternity leave is 16 weeks paid. 16! New dads get about 6 weeks paid leave. You even get paid leave if you're adopting so you can bond with your new child. I love the consistency of my schedule and the flexibility the company shows. I highly recommend Fidelity Investments and hope to get to stay there till I retire.

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

Fidelity has recently enhanced their family leave policies to keep up witht the times, although they could do more to be industry-leading in the way of flex time, remote work, and extended maternity leave. Great potential for professional development at this company provided you are able to put in the time.

Satisfied Rater Mid-Level

Fidelity is a great place to work that does a wonderful job taking care of all of its employees, including women.

Very Satisfied Rater Early Career

Worst company.

Very Unsatisfied Rater Senior-Level

Hands down best company I have worked for, one of the leaders for woman in the financial industry.

Very Satisfied Rater Senior-Level

While there are many senior executive women, including the head of the company, overall I think the firm can do better to make the environment female and other diversity friendly.

Unsatisfied Rater Mid-Level

I worked in the FI division. Opportunities for males and females are not equal. Telecommuting is only for testing done during Production migration, or weather events.

Anonymous Rater